Latest news from Atelier Crespin

de Nature en Sculpture

Group Exhibition | Fondation Villa Datris, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
> 26/05 - 01/11/2017

The Fondation Villa Datris is dedicating this year an exhibition to sculptors who draw their inspiration from nature. 'Malla Electrocinetica III' (2015) is on display for a few months together with the creations of Hicham Berrada, Michel Blazy, Giuseppe Penone and Moffat Takadiwa to name but a few.
Through this wide selection of artists, Danièle Marcovici, President and Founder of the Villa Datris, highlights the various meeting points between sculpture and nature; nature as a support, as matter, as movement, as inspiration.

de Nature en Sculpture

Group exhibition l Fondation Villa Datris / Paris
> From March 30th, 2018

The Fondation Villa Datris opens its new exhibition place in Paris. On display, a selection of 45 artworks from the permanent collection, and the seven new sculptures entered in the collection after the 2017 exhibition in l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, 'de Nature en Sculpture'.
Among these works, 'Malla Electrocinetica IV' (2018), specially created for the foundation.

Fondation Villa Datris / Paris
Espace Monte-Cristo
9, rue Monte-Cristo
75020 Paris

Formes, espaces-temps

Solo exhibition l Galerie Denise René Rive Gauche, Paris, France
> 22/03 - 12/05/2018

A set of six sculptures created in 2016 and 2018 are on display for a new solo exhibition at the Gallery Denise René Rive Gauche. Two new works made of titanium are to discover for the first time, 'Tetralineados Titan 63' and 'Circuconcéntricos Titan 63'.

Artistes & Robots

Group exhibition | Grand Palais, Paris, France
> 05/04 - 09/07/2018

‘This exhibition is an opportunity to experience works of art produced with the help of increasingly sophisticated robots. Featuring works by some forty artists, it offers a gateway to an immersive and interactive digital world – an augmented body sensory experience that subverts our notions of space and time. Robots are becoming invisible. Powered by computer programs and algorithms, technology is disappearing in favour of infinitely generated forms that can change according to our physical movements. Rather than moving from reality to dreams, or from the material to the virtual, artists are experimenting with new technologies. Their palette is a canvas with numbers in unlimited combinations. The issue of tempo is fundamental, and everything moves very fast, with thought immediately followed by action. Forms emerge from the computer in real time; images proliferate, fade away and give way to others, which metamorphose in turn’.

TOYS for BOYS

PRESS l TOYS for BOYS

An interesting meeting between Elias Crespin and the magazine Toys for Boys. Few lines to learn more about Elias's biography.

'Elias Crespin never expected to be an artist, ending up in the Grand Palais in Paris, working with Louis Vuitton or hanging in the homes of some of the world’s most important collectors, let alone achieve the magnitude of success and fame he has garnered in his respective industry. Born in 1965, he was raised in Caracas, Venezuela. It was a time of prosperity. During his teenage years in the late 1970’s, his plan was to become a computer engineer, but sometimes in life there are unexpected experiences that shift our direction and focus. In Crespin’s particular case, he merged stimulating elements he was exposed to as a young child with a unique technological expertise that he learned as a teenager. Something the world had never seen before would materialize in years to come'...

Art Miami 2017, RGR+Art

Fair | RGR+Art, booth A422
> 05/12 - 10/12/2017

At this year edition of Art Miami, RGR+Art gallery will show "Tetralineados Alu Brass 154" together with the circle and square binomial duality: "Circuconcéntricos Alu 60" et "Cuadriconcéntricos Alu 60" (2016)

THE URGE TO CREATE VISIONS…1929-2017

Group Exhibition | Center of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko
> 27/05 - 17/09/2017

The artworks 'Circuconcéntricos Alu 600' and 'Cuadriconcéntricos Alu 600" (2015) will be on display at the Center of Polish Sculpture in Oronsko for the exhibition The Urge to create visions...1929-2017. The group exhibition will present artworks by Carlos Cruz-Diez, Wojciech Fangor, Pawel Grobelny, Mikolaj Grospierre, Bethan Huws, Kimsooja, Lin Yi, Michal Martychowiec, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Jesus Rafael Soto, Franciszka and Stefan Themerson, Ludwig Wilding et Chi Tsung Wu.

Art Basel 2017

Fair | Galerie Denise René, Hall 2.0 - Booth F11
> 15 - 18/06/2017

'Línea Copper', a new artwork made of copper and lead, is on view for the 2017 edition of Art Basel, at Galerie Denise René booth.

ART BRUSSELS 2017

Fair | Galerie Denise René, booth A31
> 21-23/04/2017

Two sculptures will be on display this year in Denise René Gallery booth at Art Brussels 2017 ; two thoughts over the interaction between the line and the square with '12 Cubos en línea (Tapiz Doble 11)' and 'Tetralineados Transparente 63'.

ARCO Madrid 2017

Fair | Galerie Denise René, booth 7F05
> 22-26/02/2017

Galerie Denise René presents "Tetralineados fluo rouge" (2016).

Slow Motion

Solo exhibition | Maison de l'Amérique Latine, Paris, France
> 21/02 - 06/05/2017

"For the "Slow Motion" exhibition at the Maison de l’Amérique latine, Venezuelan artist Elias Crespin, famous for his programmed kinetic mobiles, has assembled an outstanding set of works created between 2010 and 2016.
[...] Elias Crespin’s mobiles are suspended in the air by invisible threads and their spatial configurations continue to surprise viewers. This programmed art, with no evidence of mechanical linearity, favours slowness over speed. The artist continues to surprise us depending on whether the forms distort, expand or disperse, going from order to chaos and from simple to complex."
Domitille d'Orgeval-Azzi, curator of the exhibition

Artists & Robots

Group Exhibition | Astana Contemporary Art Center (ACAC), Astana, Kazakhstan
> 10/06 - 10/09/2017

'Trialineados Fluo Vert' (2016) will be on display for the Astana International Exhibition 2017.

Artists and robots: artificial imagination rules?
Our world has been universally and uniformly transformed by advances in artificial intelligence and its scientific, industrial, financial and domestic applications. We might be forgiven, then, for thinking that art, to paraphrase André Malraux, would be the last (direct) path from man to man. The Artists & Robots project explores this other, less publicised but no less actual dimension of the rule of advanced technology: the advent of the artificial imagination. Is a machine capable of being an artist’s equal? Can a robot ever replace a painter or sculptor? To what extent is there such a thing as artificial creativity? Five hundred years ago, Leonardo da Vinci drew dream machines - a floating palace, a helicopter, a tank, an industrial loom. But this kind of visionary genius does not seem to have dared imagine a machine to replace the artist. Machines to create: these are the works presented in the first museographic exhibition organised by the Rmn-Grand Palais to look in detail at artificial imagination in its various artistic materialisations, and to address the major issues raised by this technical revolution: artists who create machines that create art.

Curators: Miguel Chevalier, artist, and Jérôme Neutres, director of strategy and development at the RMN-Grand Palais

ZONA MACO 2017

Fair | RGR+ART, Mexico
> 08/02 - 12/02/2017

RGR+ART gallery presents "Circuconcéntricos Alu Red 100" (2017) and "Tetralineados Alu Brass 154" (2017).

Lumière et mouvement

Group exhibition | Galerie Denise René, Paris, France
> 09/12/2016 - 21/01/2017

The work "Tetralineados fluo rouge 63" will be on display in this new group exhibition at the Galerie Denise René in Paris, focused on light and mouvement which will gather works by Agam, Amiuny, Bolognini, Boto, Cruz-Diez, Demarco, Duarte, Garcia-Rossi, LAb[au], Le Parc, Mack, Gruppo MID, Morellet, Ratsi, Santiago Torres, Schöffer, Stein, Vardanega.
Opening on Thursday, December 8, 7 p.m.

Art Miami, RGR+ART

Fair | RGR+ART, Booth A116
> 29/11 - 04/12/2016

RGR+ART gallery presents "Circuconcéntricos Orange 60", a new work composed by six transparent orange acrylic circoncentric rings.

Art Miami, Cecilia de Torres Ltd.

Fair | Cecilia de Torres Ltd., Booth B403
> 29/12 - 04/12/2016

At this year edition of Art Miami, the New-York Cecilia de Torres Gallery will show a new piece "Línea Roja" together with "Gran 16 planos" (2014).

The global south. Visions and revisions from the Brillembourg Capriles collection

Group exhibition | Mana Wynwood, Miami, FL, USA
> 29/11 - 04/12/2016

The SaludArte Foundation presents a new exhibition from the Brillembourg Capriles Collection: among the selection of works, "Tetralineados policromatico circular" (2009) and "Circuconcéntricos rojo transparente" (2013). The exhibition will take place from November 29 to December 4 in the Mana Wynwood space in Miami.

XIII Bienal de Cuenca

Group exhibition | Museo de la Ciudad (Escuela Central), Cuenca, Ecuador
> 25/11/2016 - 05/02/2017

The XIII Bienal de Cuenca will open on November 25. "Plano flexionante circular" (2012) will be on display in this new edition consecrated to "impermanence" and "mutable art in a materialist society".

Affinités abstraites

Group exhibition | Galerie Wagner, Le Touquet-Paris-Plage, France
> 12/11/2016 - 08/01/2017

"Tetralineados Alu Brass" is presented in the new group exhibition at the Galerie Wagner until January 8.

Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair

Fair | HDM Gallery, Booth E04
> 10 - 13/11/2016

The sculpture "Circuconcéntricos Alu Red 60" will be on display in HDM Gallery booth at ART021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair.